NEC Symphony - Gershwin: An American In Paris

Hugh Wolff conducts the NEC Symphony in a performance of George Gershwin’s brilliant 1928 tone poem “An American in Paris“ in NEC’s Jordan Hall. Of the work, Gershwin wrote: “My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.“ With the slow trumpet solo (performed here by NEC freshman Elmer Churampi) “our American friend ... has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.“ But, “nostalgi